H. L. Mencken quote: The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured ...

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at ...

~ H. L. Mencken ~

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